“I think I’m tired of auditioning. / I’m not dancing for bread anymore.”
by SEAN THOMAS DOUGHERTY
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We nominated this poem for a Pushcart Prize.
Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author of twenty books, including Death Prefers the Minor Keys from BOA Editions (2023) and The Dead are Everywhere Telling Us Things, selected by Nickole Brown and Jessica Jacobs for the Jacar Press Full Length Book Poetry Prize. Dorianne Laux has called him “the gypsy punk heart of American poetry.” He works as a Caregiver and Medtech on the third shift along Lake Erie.
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